Problem in Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS - Dropbox stopped working

[yurisobral]

My Dropbox folder is no longer syncing. I used to run smoothly, so I am guessing a recent Ubuntu update broke something. This is what I get when I run Dropbox on the command line:

yuri@yuri-dell:~$ dropbox start
Starting Dropbox...Bootstrap panicked!!

The Dropbox daemon is not installed!
Run "dropbox start -i" to install the daemon

If I do what it tells me to do, this is what I get:

yuri@yuri-dell:~$ dropbox start -i
Starting Dropbox...Bootstrap panicked!!
/usr/bin/dropbox:303: PyGIDeprecationWarning: Since version 3.11, calling threads_init is no longer needed. See: https://wiki.gnome.org/PyGObject/Threading
GObject.threads_init()
/usr/bin/dropbox:453: PyGTKDeprecationWarning: Stock items are deprecated. Please use: Gtk.Button.new_with_mnemonic(label)
self.ok = ok = Gtk.Button(stock=Gtk.STOCK_OK)
/usr/bin/dropbox:458: PyGTKDeprecationWarning: Stock items are deprecated. Please use: Gtk.Button.new_with_mnemonic(label)
cancel = Gtk.Button(stock=Gtk.STOCK_CANCEL)
/usr/bin/dropbox:348: DeprecationWarning: setDaemon() is deprecated, set the daemon attribute instead
t.setDaemon(True)
/usr/bin/dropbox:334: PyGIDeprecationWarning: GObject.idle_add is deprecated; use GLib.idle_add instead
GObject.idle_add(self.loop_callback, *ret)
/usr/bin/dropbox:344: PyGIDeprecationWarning: GObject.idle_add is deprecated; use GLib.idle_add instead
GObject.idle_add(self.on_done)
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/yuri/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-187.4.5691/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._openssl.abi3.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/yuri/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-187.4.5691/cryptography.hazmat.bindings._padding.abi3.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/yuri/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-187.4.5691/apex._apex.abi3.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/yuri/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-187.4.5691/psutil._psutil_linux.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/yuri/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-187.4.5691/psutil._psutil_posix.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/yuri/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-187.4.5691/tornado.speedups.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
dropbox: load fq extension '/home/yuri/.dropbox-dist/dropbox-lnx.x86_64-187.4.5691/wrapt._wrappers.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
success!
Bootstrap panicked!!
Done!

Any ideas of what might be the problem and how to solve it?

Thank you very much in advance!

Yuri

[Здравко]

Hm..🤔 Strange...

There is a small chance some erroneous app instance to run already. There are known bugs. Try what is already running using something like:

ps ax | grep dropbox

 If needed stop all running (possibly died) instances, try something like:

killall dropbox

...or equivalent commands. Let's hope this will work.

You can try pass around the control script using:

~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd

Let's see if the "panic" will stay in such a way (key moment).